“It’s important that all the teams who come to any World Cup venue feel that they, too, are playing at home, not just for people watching on television. Maybe America’s best claim to this World Cup is that we have the only nation you can put the World Cup that can guarantee no matter who makes the final, we can fill a stadium with home-nation rooters.”

-- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton in his presentation to the FIFA executive committee on Wednesday in support of the USA 2022 bid.